This is the longest I have run in 3 & 1/2 YEARS.  When I was bitten I was
running 5 miles a night 3-4 nights a week and it was so effortless into the 5th
mile.  Now, wow.  What a difference.  Yikes.  But I never thought I would ever
run again a couple years ago. It has taken this long, but it is so worth it.

I am still 20 pounds overweight.  Yikes.  And single now.  As Scooby Doo says,
DOUBLE YIKES!!!!!!!  But if I can run again I can get back into shape- and more
importantly, running just makes me feel connected somehow, when I was doing
it all the time.  It was soothing and my body loved it, wanted it.

I thought of something last night I am going to try & do today.  In college a
few of my friends had radio shows and I used to go hang out all the time at the
radio station.  I was in a running soap opera serial on The {*filter*} Something
which my friend BIll ran- I played a few different parts- oh, we had so much
fun!!  My main character got impaled by a falling tree during a fire though.
And my friends Danny & Mike both had {*filter*} music shows in the wee hours of
the night and I used to go hang out with them and read the public service
announcements and play stuff on air.  And pick out my favorite records and make
them play them of course!!!  So last night I was thinking of when the baby
starts leaving on weekends to be with Aram, how lonely it will be first off
without her, but also of what the heck I will DO with myself.  I am so used to
doing family things.  It is so weird.  So it hit me that of course I have a
bunch of backlogged stuff for my Lyme pages that I need to ctach up on,
updating stuff (I am not as good as Art at that*)!! and then it hit me, I
should do a radio show!!!  When I Iived in LA I got offers for voiceover work
but I never was into it so I know my voice is not so bad although I used to
hate it.
They do have community based radio shows and it is very possible I could get an
hour a week sometime!!!  I already do more than Lyme stuff, tons of 4 year old
stuff of course- and I do other volunteer work that is not Lyme-related at all,
btw, so my life is NOT just Lyme stuff.  But I think there is a REAL need for
Lyme activism, for more awareness.  There is NO awareness here.  NONE.  There
is counter-awareness.  Knowledge of this disease svaed me from a living hell
and there are others out there right now in pain who could be pain-free like
me. (((!!!Did I mention I have had a few days with NO PAIN at ALL now>? Not
even five minutes>?  But not in a row, here and there!!)

Anyway, today we are going to Laptime at The Library.  There's just a wonderful
storyteller there and Evan & I adore her.  Our friends Grace & Lucy are meeting
us for lunch at The Saturn Cafe after and after THAT I am going to zip up to
the radio station, KZSC, and leave a note for the station manager.  At the very
VERY least I know I can get our meeting anouncements read as public service
annoucnements- at the most I can get put onto a wiating list or training for a
community slot, assuming they still have them.  I ohpe they do, those were very
fun days in the radio station.  I could play all sorts of music and read
medical abstracts- whoo*)!
Lyme Time Live*)!  Just BASIC stuff about Lyme, Babesiosis, Bartonella,
Ehrlichiosis.  Todays topic is... Babesiosis!  And I could read a bunch of
stuff.

There was a radio host who was very controversial locally but she gives me
courage actually.  She used to do a show there and may still do one- she has
cerebral palsy and it is almost impossible to understand her voice if you have
never herad her.  There was a huge furor because she began hosting this show
and people wrote mean letters!!! But what happened is she got a following of
regulars who can understand her perfectly now and the station kept her on even
though they got lots of hate mail about it.  So if she can do it, I can, if
they let me!

ANyway, posting it here is a way of making myself do it.  At the very least it
will be a great way to advertise our meetings since local papers are VERY hard
to get to run them.  We have so many local meetings of so many kinds.  Wish me
luck!!!
Best wishes,
Sarah

p.s.  LONG TERM ANTIBIOTICS WORK!!!!!!!!!!!!

So I went to KZSC and turned in the PSA I wrote up and spoke with the
DJ who was doing a show and he was very helpful.  He gave me all sorts
of advice & I am going to follow it>  I'll enroll in the spring for a
beginning broadcasting course which is required and then in summer
they get desperate for DJs because all the students leave.  He said
during the year it is IMPOSSIBLE to get a new slot.  SO that is what I
will do- and in the mean time it will be great to have the meeting
announcements read on air*)!  Ta da*)!

Sarah,

I am so happy that you are doing so well.  Finding new sources
of inspiration is such an important thing to do.  Congrats on the
new distance record for your 2001 running stats.

Take care.

Kelly